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jiberish · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler

Basically the mother heard her son was being disruptive in class and came and spoke to me. She said she wants her son to do well and that I should hit him if he is being stupid. Pretty funny. Not that I already didn't give students a bop on the nogin if they were being bad. But he gets extra now haha.

Pwillig · Joined: 26 Jan 2009

Cool story.

Goku · Joined: 10 Dec 2008

These are my favorite parents. I heard teachers in China get this sort of treatement. The parents worship the ground the teachers walk on... well that's the rumor anyways. Sort of like iif a teacher wanted to take a cattle prod to their kid, it would be ok to teach him discipline. <3

The ones that are irritating are the ones that irrationaly defend their kids
"Oh my angel wouldn't do anything wrong".
Those parents deserve a beating along with their kids.

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

There was a myth that Korean parents cherished teachers. Maybe long ago but not today. It's all about Minsu and Su min now. We're just fumes.

tomato · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:35 pm Post subject:

You must be a really fine teacher.

jiberish · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler

You need a good set of punishments when you teach 20 elementry students alone. I would give a speech how you should listen in class but all the students wouldn't understand. A quick bop on the head for boys is a fast way to get them to be quiet. Its not like beating them as they do in middle and high. Cheek pinching is also good.

moosehead · Joined: 05 May 2007

I've found just the threat of calling a student's mother can change their mood pretty fast - especially if you do it standing in front of the class and everyone hears, including the student who is misbehaving.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

OneWayTraffic · Joined: 14 Mar 2005

bobbybigfoot · Joined: 05 May 2007 Location: Seoul

Bring back controlled beatings.
Would stop 99% of the bullsh*t in our classes. These kids behave so badly that by not stopping the ignorant behaviour, we are actually teaching it.

Case in point: the last class I taught. 6 girls and 6 boys. The 6 girls did all their work and had fun doing it. The 6 boys goofed off and ignored my repeated attempts to get them to listen, work, speak English. I gave up and began teaching exclusively to the girls. This happens virtually every class with these kids. Consequently, the girls can express themselves in English whereas the boys can't.

If, four months ago, just one of these boys had been hauled out of my class for a good a$$ whooping, I guarantee you that I wouldn't have the same problems I'm having now.

I have another class filled entirely with rejects. The Korean teacher has largely given up. He can't control them. I certainly can't. The kids now are coming to class late: between 5 and 30 minutes late. 25% are now doing homework. These kids have learned that there are no consequences for them. They run the show. And they aren't shy about it either. "Why are you late?" I ask. "Eating ramien." Nice.

tomato · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:04 pm Post subject:

I have a question for those of you who advocate beating children:
Do you beat administrators and co-workers when you're angry with them?
If not, what's the difference?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Insidejohnmalkovich · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Location: Pusan

jiberish · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler

I wish we could live in a world without those few bastard students. It's just frustrating when 90% of the students are good and some are bad. But you need to waste so much time telling to be quiet. Which stops you from teaching and then the other kids minds wander off. Thinking about it, I don't think hitting the students works in the long term. Because to have any kind of affect you need to hit them so hard they will remember it, which I think we have moved past as society. Anyone got any other alternative ideas. I know calling the parents is good and has worked in the past. But the korean teacher is overworked as it is. So I don't want to give her that stress.

Last week I adopted a method of drawing three hearts on the board. These represented the students live, like in a game. If you lost all three. There would be no game, no candy and more homework. It worked pretty well when I picked up the erazer and all the students would tell the noisy kid to shut up. But in the end it was often one student to remove all the classes lives so I felt bad about giving them all extra work because really most didn't deserve it.

Wish I had the power to just kick them out of the class forever. I would love my job if I could remove the few bad students which give me 95% of my stress at work

ChinaBoy · Joined: 17 Feb 2007